Posts Tagged by Spinach

Spinach Mung Dal Fry

Spinach mung dal fry, palak mung dal fry, only curries, cooking with seeds - moung beans

This is another simple, quick and easy recipe. Palak or Spinach is most cooked leafy vegetable in my kitchen and it is usually spinach fry. Mr. U doesn’t like mixing vegetables or pulses with it. Spinach dal is another very popular dish in any Telugu household but that is a rarity I my house. One… more

Spinach Pesto Sandwich

Spinach Pesto Sandwich

Last week I made some spinach pesto for the marathon. I used the pesto to make pasta salad and the rest, I have been using to make some sandwiches.   Although I made the pesto a week ago, it is still fresh as it was a week ago.   I also have some left over… more

Spinach Pesto

Spinach Pesto

For day five of the marathon, I prepared spinach pesto sauce. I used this pesto to make pasta salad for lunch. I was going to share even the salad recipe today. I added too many vegetables to the salad and was not totally satisfied with the salad. Will share the salad some other time. I… more

Green Soup

Green soup

This Monday, group 2 started their blogging marathon. I am joining them in the marathon for couple days, today and tomorrow, sticking to my soups theme. Today’s soup is green soup which I made cooking spinach, green peas, celery and cabbage in some stock, and then pureed it. Green vegetables give this soup a nice… more

BM#3 Day 2: Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast

Spinach stuffed chicken breasts

Last week, as I was blog hopping I came across this post and it inspired me to make this chicken. I did not follow her recipe. I am not very fond of the chicken we get here in the US and especially the boneless breast pieces. I prefer boned pieces to the boneless pieces. I… more

Spinach Orange Soup

Spinach Orange Soup

Spinach is a nutritious leafy vegetable rich in iron and calcium. The iron in spinach is non-heme and is an iron inhibitor. Our body cannot easily absorb the iron present in spinach. Eating spinach with iron absorption enhancers like meats, poultry, shellfish, tomatoes and citrus food makes the iron easily absorb-able. More information of on… more

Spinach Fry

Spiach Fry

Spinach is one vegetable I make very often. I like anything cooked with spinach, spinach raita, spinach rice, spinach kheema, spinach dal and in soups, unlike U, whose first choice is always spinach fry. He would not mind if a gave him this almost everyday, for a fortnight! That is how much he likes this… more

Kheema Palak ~ Ground Meat & Spinach Fry

Kheema Palak

Spinach is one of very few vegetables that we both like and I cook it at least once a week.  I usually stir fry spinach, just like the green chard fry that I blogged about a while back.  Sometimes, I also make  spinach raita.  But the last time I cooked spinach, I added some kheema… more

Lentils Vegetable Soup

Back in November, I was looking at EC’s light meals round-up and Sayantani’s soup caught my eye. I hopped over to her blog to check out the recipe. The recipe looked simple and very tempting. It had lots of vegetables and lentils and looked light. I bookmarked the recipe and was looking for a perfect… more

Spinach Raita

SpinachRaita

A typical South Indian meal, to be more precious, an Andhra meal, ends with a bowl of yogurt or yogurt rice. But in my house, there are days when yogurt doesn’t even make it to the dinning table, as both of us are not very fond of it. I don’t drink tea, coffee and am… more